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    The Addict (book)

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    The Addict
    TheAddictbook1963.jpg
    Editor Dan Wakefield
    Country United States
    Language English
    Subject Drug addiction
    Genre Non-fiction
    Publisher Fawcett Publications
    Published 1963
    Pages 191
    OCLC 226414526

    The Addict: The Physical, Psychological and Social Effects of Narcotic Addiction, is a 1963 non-fiction anthology compiled and edited by author Dan Wakefield, recounting sixteen different points of view concerning the study of drug addiction. Published by Fawcett Premier Publications.

    Contributors include writers Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs (penned as William Lee), pioneer methadone researcher Dr. Marie Nyswander, professor of sociology Alfred R. Lindesmith, biochemist Robert S. de Ropp, clinical psychologist Charles Winick, novelist Alexander Trocchi, addict 'Janet Clark', memoirist Alexander King, sociologist Edwin M. Schur, and journalist Jane Kramer.

    The title was reprinted in 1965, 1966, and 1968.

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    • 'Janet Clark' - Getting busted.
    • Alexander King - Going to Lexington.
    • Alexander Trocchi - Inside the cave.
    • Alfred R. Lindesmith - Torture by law. Beginnings of wisdom.
    • Charles Winnick - The addict psychology.
    • Edwin M. Schur - The 'British System.'
    • Jane Kramer - The Synanon experiment.
    • Marie Nyswander - History of a nightmare.
    • Nelson Algren - The weaker sheep.
    • Oona Sullivan - A bridge to the addict.
    • Rabbi Joseph R. Rosenbloom - 'Let me know if I can do anything.'
    • Reverend Norman C. Eddy - The Church vs. heroin.
    • Robert S. DeRopp - Torture by the drug.
    • William Butler Eldridge - Myths and facts.
    • William Lee - Feeding the monkey.
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